New $53M Texas high school football stadium has state's largest video board

[TexasTowelie]

The football stadiums in Texas just keeping getting bigger.

The latest cathedral to pigskin is the new $50+ million Children's Health Stadium, which will host Prosper (Texas) High School. Prosper is a northern suburb of Dallas.

In total, the stadium will seat 12,000 fans and houses the largest video board in any Texas high school stadium, football or otherwise.

According to Gregg Riddle of the Dallas Morning News, the final construction cost for the building was $53 million.

Read more: https://www.lmtonline.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/New-53M-Texas-high-school-football-stadium-has-14364662.php
(Laredo Morning Times)

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[Sherman A1]

1. I assume that this is a fairly affluent district

One would hope that teacher salaries are high and that the classrooms are all full fitted out with all the necessary and all the latest equipment, but it’s their money so it is their’s to do with as they wish.

[3Hotdogs]

3. Are you shittin' me? Spend money on teachers and educational equipment?

Rutgers spent hundreds of millions on a stadium. Nobody goes to the games.

Last week, they announced they will sell individual game tickets because not enough peeps are buying season tix.

[hlthe2b]

2. Obscene.

If even 10% of that went toward actual education, I'd be less upset. I don't dislike football and I certainly know the obsession--especially in Texas and the Southeast. But, this is beyond obscene.